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Disclosing fabricated intimate images

RCW 9A.86.030

In force since .

An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.

Obligation class
Prohibition
Audit expectation
none
Setting the rule reaches
General

What it requires

  • Do not knowingly disclose a fabricated intimate image, one created or altered by digitization, including through artificial intelligence, of an identifiable person if you know or should know the person has not consented and that disclosure would cause harm.
  • Lacking knowledge that the image was digitized, or the depicted person's consent to the image's creation, is not a defense to disclosing it without their consent to the disclosure.

These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.

In the frameworks

NIST AI RMF
  • MAP 3.3Targeted application scope is specified and documented based on the system’s capability, established context, and AI system categorization.
NIST AI 600-1
MIT mitigations Draft
  • 1.5Safety Decision Frameworks
  • 3.3Access Management
FINOS AIGF
ETSI EN 304 223
  • 5.1.2-1Business need and security risks written down and assessed before deciding to build an AI system.
  • 5.1.4-5End-users told which uses of the system are prohibited.

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If you get it wrong

Criminal exposureYes

Criminal exposure note

Disclosing fabricated intimate images is a gross misdemeanor on a first offense and a class C felony where the defendant has a prior conviction under this section or RCW 9A.86.010.

What it makes you log

Logging duty

The statute criminalizes knowingly disclosing a fabricated intimate image without the depicted person's consent. It states no duty for anyone to create, keep, or produce a log or record of a disclosure.

Kind
None
As of

What this law does

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Research summary

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A person commits the crime of disclosing fabricated intimate images by knowingly disclosing a fabricated intimate image, one created or altered by digitization, including through artificial intelligence, to depict intimate body parts or sexual activity that did not actually occur, of another identifiable person, knowing or having reason to know the depicted person has not consented and that disclosure would cause harm.

It is not a defense that the discloser lacked knowledge the image had been digitized or that the depicted person consented to the image's creation or alteration. The offense is a gross misdemeanor on a first offense and a class C felony on a repeat offense, and the statute carves out public-interest disclosures and ordinary interactive-service-provider conduct.

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